 Since the beginning of the Syrian war there has been a large influx of Syrian refugees to Europe and Sweden has been one of the main recipient countries. And this has caused some difficulties for Sweden to provide them housing, employment and schooling. For example, civic integration programs in Sweden were initially designed for 16,000 people but it is already estimated that for next year 85,000 people will be participating in them. Municipalities are buying apartments because there is not enough housing and they are building schools. And finally there is 125,000 unresolved asylum claims. Before the Syrian war asylum seekers had to wait for about three months before they got an answer and these days they may have to wait for up to one year. In the meantime housing is provided for them but they can also live with friends, relatives and they are allowed to work but their employment rate is below 1% among them actually. Both these issues, the high numbers and Sweden's capacity to integrate them at institutions, for example at schools they are creating some tensions also among the long-term residents of the country. So another related issue is the deficiency of Swedish integration policies and especially those addressing the job market of newly arrived immigrants. There are several questions related to this issue. The first one is that the Swedish job market is related to highly skilled jobs and often there is a mismatch between newly arrived immigrants skills and those needed in the job market in Sweden. But also experts in the field say that civic integration policies in Sweden which provide language training, civic and job market orientation for newly arrived refugees and their families they need to be individualized and also more connected to the job market. My research looks at the job marketing integration of immigrants in Sweden and also at their intermarriage patterns. I find that newly arrived immigrants and especially refugees are not doing as well as natives and other kind of type of migrants in Sweden. Several reasons are behind these differences, lower human capital, discrimination and non-familiarity with the Swedish market rules, etc. Some of the reasons why they seem to be doing less well is lower education, language barrier, lack of connections in the host country. I also look at the intermarriage between immigrants and natives and how this affects the employment opportunities. I find that immigrants including refugees who are married to natives they have higher employment rates and higher income. So the lessons from my work are that refugees are not doing as well in the job market as other type of immigrants. But intermarried refugees are doing better than those who marry other immigrants because close relationships with native people like it is marriage or friendship increases their access to local networks, their language abilities, etc. and this in turn helps them better integrate in the Swedish society.